Morning Links: The Christo Says No Edition

Christo is saying “no” to Trump with a dramatic exit from a proposed $50 million project in Colorado on which he has worked for more than 20 years. Out with fantastical dreams of fabric draped over the Arkansas River, in with protest.
[The New York Times]

Digital copies of Impressionist paintings will do for collector Henry Bloch, who hung simulacrums of classics on his walls after donating the originals to the Nelson-Atkins in Kansas City, Missouri. [The Wall Street Journal]

In the midst of a protest piece meant to continue for four years, actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested last night in Queens after a scuffle with an attendee. [CNN]

Harry Mathews, the heady Oulipo-group writer who authored the novels Tlooth and My Life in CIA as well as a book about masturbation titled Singular Pleasures, passed away at the age of 86. [The Paris Review]

Mary Tyler Moore, who turned the whole TV world on with her smile, is gone, at the age of 80. [The Guardian]